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Plotting a Path to a Nature-Positive Food System
By Anya GandySustainability & Corporate Strategy – Happy National Agriculture Week! This and every week, I celebrate the essential workers that steward our farmland and bring food to the worldwide table. Raised on a small family farm, I understand the unrelenting and rewarding responsibility that caring for land and animals brings. A responsibility that hangs…
Read MoreExpansion Into Wheat Continues a Personal Journey
By Catherine FeuilletChief Scientific Officer – This week marked yet another exciting development in Inari’s progress toward helping to transform the global food system by deploying our SEEDesign™ technology platform in major crops, as we announced a key partnership with leading Australian cereal seed company InterGrain. But this news is also particularly inspiring to me on a…
Read MoreInterGrain and Inari Launch Collaboration to Deliver Step-Change in Wheat Yield Potential
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 22, 2022 — Inari, the SEEDesign™ company, and InterGrain, a leading cereal breeding company in Australia, today announced a strategic collaboration to dramatically improve the yield potential of wheat, enhancing the crop’s long-term viability in the face of an increasingly variable climate. The partnership brings together InterGrain’s well-adapted Australian wheat genetics with Inari’s…
Read MoreForbes: Patents Aim to Boost Corn and Soy Performance
Food is so complicated – making it, growing it, choosing what to eat of it. It’s tempting to say this is relatively recent, but if you could travel back in time to talk to the farmers who started selectively breeding corn from teosinte, they’d probably tell you figuring that out was no walk in the park. From a…
Read MoreInari to Bring Growers Proprietary GM Traits in Tandem with Novel Gene Edits
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 9, 2022 — Globally, growers are impacted by the dual challenges of growing more food while making the best use of limited resources. New solutions are required if the needs of the people and the planet are to be met. Inari, the SEEDesign™ company, aims to address these challenges using multiplex gene editing with goals…
Read MoreHow Diversity is Driving Breakthrough Technology
Our mission at Inari – to help build a sustainable food system – is ambitious. But, we don’t lack confidence in our ability to complete it because as an organization, we’re relying on one of nature’s oldest and most effective strategies: diversity. Nature doesn’t believe in doing things a single way. Neither do we. By…
Read MoreInari Collaboration with Eden Enterprise Expands Access to Corn Genetics
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct. 12, 2021 – Inari, the SEEDesignTM company, announced a strategic collaboration with Eden Enterprise, Inc. that enables access to Stine’s elite corn breeding program in order to further advance the development of unique and competitive products. “We see tremendous potential with gene editing for our corn and soybean breeding programs,” said Harry Stine, president…
Read MoreInari Further Invests in Predictive Design Capabilities with Hiring of Chief Information and Data Officer
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sept. 21, 2021 — Enhancing efforts to effect sustainable improvements through the deep understanding of plants’ complex biological code, Inari – the SEEDesign™ company – has welcomed Dr. Rania Khalaf to its leadership team as its first chief information and data officer. Khalaf brings more than a decade of artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing…
Read MoreThe Journey to the UN Food System Summit
By Ponsi TrivisvavetInari CEO – As the world prepares for the first UN Food System Summit, the saying about the journey being more important than the destination rings true. So many people across the globe have participated in an incredible journey to prepare for this moment — I am humbled and honored to be one of them.…
Read MoreBeing Bold and Innovative with our Scientific Strategy Board
By Catherine FeuilletChief Scientific Officer – I’m a firm believer that the only way to unlock innovation is to challenge the status quo — and ourselves. This requires fighting the “must be invented here” syndrome and tapping into the brightest minds across different areas of scientific studies. The pace of innovation is moving too fast for…
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